Oswego, NY -- An inmate at the Oswego County Jail was arrested after sending sexually explicit letters to his victim from jail and for being wanted on a warrant in Florida for sexual activity with a child, sheriff's deputies said.

On Thursday at 2:15 p.m., James Ray LaPoint, 40, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, deputies said. LaPoint allegedly sent sexually explicit letters to his victim between February and March 2013 while he was in jail.

At the same time, LaPoint was arrested on a fugitive warrant issued by Lee County, Fla., for sexual activity with a child. The sexual battery allegedly took place in 2012 and 2013 when he and the victim lived in Lee County, deputies said.

LaPoint was taken to the Oswego County Jail. He is being held without bail.